16-letter words containing a, m, e, n, d
- indirect primary — a primary in which members of a party elect delegates to a party convention that in turn elects the party's candidates.
- indiscriminately — not discriminating; lacking in care, judgment, selectivity, etc.: indiscriminate in one's friendships.
- indiscriminative — Making no distinction; not discriminating.
- infinite decimal — nonterminating decimal.
- information desk — helpdesk, information point
- interdimensional — Between dimensions.
- interlaced image — progressive coding
- intermediateness — The condition of being intermediate.
- intradermal test — a test for immunity or allergy to a particular antigen by observing the local reaction following injection of a small amount of the antigen into the skin.
- irremediableness — The state or quality of being irremediable.
- j. random hacker — (jargon) /J rand'm hak'r/ MIT jargon for a mythical figure; the archetypal hacker nerd. This may originally have been inspired by "J. Fred Muggs", a show-biz chimpanzee whose name was a household word back in the early days of TMRC, and was probably influenced by J. Presper Eckert (one of the co-inventors of the electronic computer). See random, Suzie COBOL.
- kingdom of arles — a kingdom in SE France which had dissolved by 1378: known as the Kingdom of Burgundy until about 1200
- kiss and make up — be reconciled
- land-poor farmer — a farmer who owns much unprofitable land and lacks the money to maintain its fertility or improve it
- landed immigrant — foreigner: permanent resident
- lay intermediary — a layperson who is interposed between a lawyer and client to prevent the existence of a direct relationship between them.
- legal department — the department that deals with legal matters
- limited monarchy — a monarchy that is limited by laws and a constitution.
- limited-monarchy — a limited train, bus, etc.
- lord chamberlain — (in Britain) the chief official of the royal household
- machine moulding — the process of making moulds and cores for castings by mechanical means, usually by compacting the moulding sand by vibration instead of by ramming down
- machine readable — of or relating to data encoded on an appropriate medium and in a form suitable for processing by computer.
- machine-readable — of or relating to data encoded on an appropriate medium and in a form suitable for processing by computer.
- magellanic cloud — either of two irregular galactic clusters in the southern heavens that are the nearest independent star system to the Milky Way.
- mainstream media — newspapers, magazines, television, and radio, as opposed to social media
- malcontentedness — not satisfied or content with currently prevailing conditions or circumstances.
- maleic anhydride — a colorless crystalline, unsaturated compound, C 4 H 2 O 3 , that is soluble in acetone and hydrolyzes in water: used in the production of polyester resins, pesticides, and fumaric and tartaric acids.
- man and superman — a comedy (1903) by G. B. Shaw.
- man of few words — man who speaks very little
- man of the world — a man who is widely experienced in the ways of the world and people; an urbane, sophisticated man.
- managed currency — a currency whose value is established and maintained by deliberate governmental action working through national and international financial institutions, in contrast to the quasi-automatic gold standard.
- mandarin chinese — the official language of China since 1917; the form of Chinese spoken by about two thirds of the population and taught in schools throughout China
- manganese nodule — a small irregular concretion found on deep ocean floors having high concentrations of certain metals, esp manganese
- manhood suffrage — the right of adult male citizens to vote
- manic depression — bipolar disorder.
- manic-depressive — suffering from bipolar disorder.
- manifest destiny — the belief or doctrine, held chiefly in the middle and latter part of the 19th century, that it was the destiny of the U.S. to expand its territory over the whole of North America and to extend and enhance its political, social, and economic influences.
- manufactured gas — a gaseous fuel created from coal, oil, etc., as differentiated from natural gas.
- many-plumed moth — a moth of the species, Alucita hexadactyla
- maritime command — the naval branch of the Canadian armed forces
- market gardening — Chiefly British. truck farm.
- marmalade orange — a bitter variety of orange suitable for making marmalade
- masculine ending — a final inflection or suffix designating that a word belongs to the masculine gender.
- mason-dixon line — the boundary between Pennsylvania and Maryland, partly surveyed by Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon between 1763 and 1767, popularly considered before the end of slavery as a line of demarcation between free and slave states.
- mass destruction — devastation on a large scale
- matthew flinders — Matthew, 1774–1814, English navigator and explorer: surveyed coast of Australia.
- measuring device — gauge
- media atropatene — an ancient region in NW Iran, formerly a part of Media.
- medical examiner — a physician or other person trained in medicine who is appointed by a city, county, or the like, to perform autopsies on the bodies of persons supposed to have died from unnatural causes and to investigate the cause and circumstances of such deaths.
- medicine cabinet — cupboard where medication is stored